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It's normal tbh, rejection hurts everyone. But trust me, they'll get over it and they'll be your friends. :)
Halsin is weird, it seems like if all you do is save him he instantly goes to max lust, which I get, but really wish there was a way to just turn the crap off.
Jaheira kind of bugs out sometimes and seems to think you're in a relationship when you've done nothing to indicate as such too.
The whole romance/lust system needs a complete gutting and repiping imo.
How long have you played with him in the party tho?
Totally agree.
I hold that the older opt-in approach of comparable titles was a better video game experience. It gave you agency over the game state. It left very little ambiguity so you could be nice to your companions without wondering if it was going to lock you into the wrong romance. I suppose to some extent being hit on is a more common real world experience for some than others, and there's some realism to it, but have half dozen people trying to get in your pants in the same 24 hours is not a common experience. Theres not any realism there.
Goes back to the black and white thinking problem throughout the game. Why not have Laezel - who is simply seeking carnal pleasure for the lols, hit on you, fine. Haslin might be a decent counter balance, he seems to take all comers, all you gotta do is see if his dialogue tree opened up during the camp party twice and hes ready to drop trousers. Everyone else should require an opt in nudge.
Gale would be better written as still wanting to fix things with Mystra, and then you can intercede. Dude needs a shoulder, not a fling. Start there.
Shadowheart actually is pretty much manageable as is. You have very clear boundaries you can set, and she requires a lot of pursuit. The wine at the party as far as i can tell, can be a friend thing.
Astarion being a bit ambiguous is fine. That is his nature. But it should be pretty easy to steer him elsewhere without making him feel rejected. Becuase of the ambiguity it isnt, and itd be nice if there was some dialogue early on you had to go out of your way to choose to set him on a path towards pursuit, and elsewise the rest could be presumed innocent.
Karlach craves touch, again, make it opt-in to be you, by default just leave her thirsty in general. Maybe even let you set up wyll and karlach. That'd be cool.
Wyll, well, He comes close to being manageable without flirting, but i still had to reject him and im not sure why.
Though ive said it before, whats really missing is a couple of wrex/sten/hk characters. They don't wanna bone. They are here to kick ass and be your merc buddy.
I do like the idea of being able to hook certain characters up with other characters. A Will x Karlach is a ship that wrote itself, and while I feel some other match ups could go well, I think that really there just needs to be a more solid boundary line we can set as players with each of the origin characters.
As cheesy as it is, I kind of like the whole "give them a physical gift to indicate desire" as the key to unlock a lust/romance path, instead of vague dialogues that really shouldn't be pick up lines frankly. Like the Night Orchid for Shadowheart, there could easily be a similar such item you could give to each of the characters to START a romance/lust path and otherwise just leave it as friendship as the default path.
OR just make the romance options obvious, as in, just as we put "Wisdom" or "Investigation" next to a dialogue choice, just put "Romance" in brackets next to a romance path choice.
Lets be honest here, many of us myself included are dense as a brick when it comes to people flirting with them.
I can't deny im on the dense end of that. Only reason i ultimately fell from the bachelor ranks is that I made a move that I didn't even realize was a move, after missing intentionally obvious signs that I didn't pick up. Funny how that works.
Even with that said - I always knew what i was doing in DragonAge/Mass Effect/Kotor/Jade Empire/BG2, so this one to me is self-evidently less clear.
Go into Options and turn off the three salacious game options and don't act like a horndog.
If you're gonna do that, just go Dark Urge so you can bite his hand off